tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post5074937573814267743..comments2015-02-24T06:11:31.420-05:00Comments on slight paranoia: A Takedown Resistant, Unofficial Podcast Feed for "This American Life"Christopher Soghoianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08950937382104783909noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-81499241907531044632010-10-21T20:40:37.075-04:002010-10-21T20:40:37.075-04:00CURRENT: OCTOBER 2010 !
Here&#39;s a way to get a...CURRENT: OCTOBER 2010 !<br /><br />Here&#39;s a way to get a bunch of episodes with one command. You need Linux or a Mac. Sorry windows. I downloaded 44 episodes like this today.<br /><br />for i in {100..416};do wget http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/podcast.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/$i.mp3;done<br /><br />note: I don&#39;t know the numbering scheme below 100, try to figure it out. 416 is their latest episode. Get &#39;em before they change it up. Your welcome and enjoy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-74429452576917063032007-09-09T12:36:00.000-04:002007-09-09T12:36:00.000-04:00Before jumping to conclusions, let's take a moment...Before jumping to conclusions, let's take a moment to become aware of a few salient facts:<BR/><BR/>* TAL is paid by NPR/PRI to produce their radio show. Those funds come largely from listener dontions. However, a non-trivial portion of NPR's operating budget comes from governmental funding, which is to say "taxes". You and I (if you're American, anyhow) have already paid for a portion of that content.<BR/><BR/>* Ira and Co. are not exactly hurting financially. They've expanded into television and can easily afford to pay their bills. And if they couldn't, as pointed out above, it would be just as easy for them to reduce costs and host the archived content elsewhere at negligible expense.<BR/><BR/>* Audible provides their content in DRM-encumbered formats. That DRM is "bad" is no longer a matter of debate or personal opinion. There have already been a number of major instances of content being locked away from legitimate owners due to failures in policy or technology, the most recent (ca. Aug. 2007) being the Google Video fiasco.<BR/><BR/>I like TAL. I wish them many years of continued success. I support NPR. But these groups can do better, and supporting their failings does not encourage them to try harder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-89221853614126614872007-06-16T11:21:00.000-04:002007-06-16T11:21:00.000-04:00Not cool. They're making the episodes available fo...Not cool. They're making the episodes available for free and selling the archive. That's their current revenue model, and I think that listeners can respect and understand it. Your feeds are clearly in opposition to that plan--just because it's "suboptimal" to you and potentially a legal grey area doesn't mean that you should build something that routes around their intent. If you're a fan, you should respect their--very solid and listener-friendly--distribution model here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-82024375540253702362007-06-14T08:15:00.000-04:002007-06-14T08:15:00.000-04:00"Listeners wishing to podcast previous episodes mu..."Listeners wishing to podcast previous episodes must buy them online - from either Apple's iTunes store, or audible.com for 99 cents"<BR/><BR/>That is not correct. If you subscribe via iTunes - you always get the latest version for free. Which you can keep as long as you want. Its the archived episodes that cost money - which I believe is entirely reasonable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com